great lakes

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   a group of five large, interconnected lakes in central North America

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   Part ofUnited StatesCanada

   PartsLake ErieLake HuronLake MichiganLake OntarioLake Superior

Questions about great lakes

What does great lakes mean?

great lakes means "a group of five large, interconnected lakes in central North America".

Is great lakes a common word?

great lakes is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.